Email Endpoints are available in PhixFlow version 11.3+

What is an Email Endpoint?

How does an Email Endpoint work?

1. An Email Account(s) must be set up in your application to receive incoming emails
   1. The email account setup should be:
      1. Type: choose Inbound
      2. On Email Received: choose Trigger an email endpoint actionflow
      3. Email Endpoint Action: choose your

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2. If the emails are to be saved, a 

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   must be created with appropriate attributes for the incoming emails, e.g. id, from, to, cc, subject, body, folderId
3. To allow PhixFlow to save attachments, a

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   must be created
   1. The above Table and File Table must be related, see Relationship
4. Upon receiving an email, the

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   will run and perform the action(s) as specified with the Email Endpoint Actionflow, such as saving each incoming email as a record in a table 
   1. If saving to a table, each received email saves as a seperate record

Creating an Email Endpoint

Email endpoints must be made using the specific option on the 

1. Create a new

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    on the 

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   homepage using the  option
   1. 
2. Set a unique name and provide a useful descriptionThe Email Endpoint
3. Configure the endpoint to perform the required tasks on receiving of incoming emails, for example, save all records to a 

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   1. Note: Email Endpoints cannot contain 

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      actions

Saving Attachments

Attachments can be saved in a seperate

1. Click 

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   will open in the Actionflow toolbar to open the settings for the Email Endpoint on the right - for
   1. For the full Properties list,
   see 
   1. see Email Endpoint Properties
   Configure the endpoint to perform the required tasks, for example return all company data , or pass in a date and return all companies onboarded after this date

2. In the Basic Settings, in the Save Attachments to field, set the 

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   that incoming email attachments should be saved to
   1. Create a new

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      by clicking the

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       icon or choose an existing table using the

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      icon or selecting from the drop down list.
   2. When creating a

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      to save attachments to, a folderId attribute is automatically created
      1. This attribute will also populate on the

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          where the email records are saved to for each email received and is used to link the attachment(s) saved in the

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         to the email fields (e.g. id, from, to, cc, subject, body, folderId) saved in the

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Displaying Emails

File Display

File Gallery Display

Worked Example

Coming Soon.

If you require further support on this topic, please contact PhixFlow Support via the 

available in Image Modified Design Mode from the system controls in the top right of PhixFlow.